Dengue

His rash is due to Dengue fever.

The trip wasn't all good. I got food poisoning and my classmate got dengue fever.

Dengue is spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes kill hundreds of thousands of people each year by spreading microbes that cause diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever.

The tiger mosquito is one of the most common carriers of chikungunya and dengue.

A mosquito-borne viral illness, dengue fever often begins with a severe headache and fever, then blossoms into that severe pain accompanied by vomiting, swollen glands and a rash.

The World Health Organization estimates that 2.5 billion people — more two-fifths of the world's population — are at risk of infection with Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness that in its worst form can cause death.

Zika, like dengue fever and West Nile virus, is in a family of mosquito-borne viruses called flaviviruses. A new study suggests that Zika can be much worse for people previously infected with another flavivirus. In pregnant women, it may put their babies at higher risk for serious birth defects, including microcephaly, a condition in which infants are born with abnormally small heads.

There are already vaccines against dengue, and Lim says one possibility to prevent Zika's serious complications would be to develop a dengue vaccine that also protects against Zika.

By using a common bacteria, scientists have figured out a way to potentially sterilize disease-carrying mosquitoes. That could make it possible to control the mosquito that spreads Zika and Dengue.